Ebola-diagnosed military health worker to be treated in UK

A military health worker diagnosed with Ebola on Wednesday will be flown back to the UK for treatment, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed.

The MoD said on Thursday
that an RAF C17 plane had flown to Sierra Leone with an expert on
the disease from the Royal Free Hospital in London on
board.

“Despite there being stringent procedures and controls in
place to safeguard UK service personnel, there is always a level
of risk in deployments on operations of this type,” an MoD
spokeswoman said.

Public Health England (PHE) said an investigation into how the
worker contracted the virus is currently underway. She is
believed to have fallen ill at the Kerry Town Crisis Centre,
built last year by the British Army and funded by the UK
government.